Duke University (4 knihy )
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Anna Mollow Sex and Disability ENThe title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much detail. What if sex and disability were understood as intimately related concepts? And what if disabled people were seen…
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Nancy King The Social Medicine Reader (Volume 1) ENA woman with what is quite probably a terminal illness must choose between courses of treatment based on contradictory diagnoses. A medical student causes acute pain in his patients as he learns to insert a central line. One doctor wonders how to react when a patient asks him to pray with her; another struggles to come to terms with his mistakes. A physician writes in prominent medical journal about facilitating a…
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Gail E. Henderson The Social Medicine Reader (Volume 2) ENRanging from a historical look at eugenics to an ethnographic description of parents receiving the news that their child has Downs syndrome, from analyses of inequalities in the delivery of health services to an examination of the meaning of race in genomics research, and from a meditation on the loneliness of the long-term caregiver to a reflection on what children owe their elderly parents, this volume explores…
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Jonathan Oberlander The Social Medicine Reader (Volume 3) ENOver the past four decades the American health care system has witnessed dramatic changes in private health insurance, campaigns to enact national health insurance, and the rise (and perhaps fall) of managed care. Bringing together seventeen pieces new to this second edition of The Social Medicine Reader with four classic pieces from the first edition, Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine draws on a broad range of…